Prosecutors say Maxwell created “a culture of silence” to shroud her and Epstein’s crimes. I didn’t want anybody to know any of this about me.” “I was scared,” she said, choking back tears. The defense demanded to know why “Jane” had taken so long to come forward. On Friday,the prosecution unfolded a green massage table from the Epstein home to corroborate the accuser’s testimony that massages were used as pretense for the sexual encounters. Soon she was visiting the home by herself when, she said, Maxwell and Epstein lured her into unwanted sexual contact that Maxwell treated as “no big deal.” It was a pattern prosecutors hope to prove was repeated over and over with other girls and young women. The witness - a woman now in her early 40s who was introduced to jurors as “Jane” to protect her privacy - testified that Maxwell and Epstein groomed her by taking her shopping and inviting her and her mother to Epstein’s mansion in Palm Beach, Florida. What followed over the next few years, the accuser said, scarred her for life. The first Maxwell accuser’s story began innocently enough: She was a 14-year-old eating ice cream at a music camp in 1994 when she was approached by Epstein and Maxwell, walking her Yorkie.
SIMS 4 CITY LIVING TRIAL TRIAL
Here are snapshots from a trial drawing international attention: Her lawyers say she’s a scapegoat for Epstein, who killed himself in 2019 while awaiting trial behind bars. The jury at the federal trial in Manhattan also heard from former employees who offered an inside look at a lavish lifestyle Epstein shared with Maxwell, who was his girlfriend and then his employee. NEW YORK (AP) - The first week of the sex-abuse trial of Ghislaine Maxwell saw the first of her four main accusers taking the witness stand to give emotional testimony accusing the British socialite of coaxing her - at just 14 - into sexual encounters with financier Jeffrey Epstein.
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